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Vis institutionis

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Otto van Veen
1556-1629

Vis institutionis

7 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches (181 x 147 mm)
Brush and off-white opaque watercolor, and gray oil, and pen and brown ink; on a paper prepared with a light brown ground of lead white tinted with yellow-brown ochre and a little red in oil medium.
Van Veen Album, folio 13

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: since the drawings are laid down, no watermarks, if any, are visible, even with fiber-optic light.
Engraved in reverse, 1607.
Also see records on Van Veen Album (III, 146-157).
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on the album page below the design, in brown ink, "Vis institútionis (title) / Quo semel est imbúta recens servabit odorem / Testa diú" (The jar will long keep the fragrance of what it was once steeped in when new). The text is from Horace, "Epistles", Book I, 2, lines 69-70.
Bibliography
Stampfle 1991 Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 72, no. 125.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department